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Ever wonder why a bitten cheek heals before a paper cut even scabs?
Your mouth has been hiding a secret.
Scientists found a tiny protein in human saliva called histatin-1. For years they thought it only killed bacteria.
They were wrong.
It does something far stranger. It tells your skin cells to spread, migrate, and slam a wound shut. It sparks the growth of new blood vessels right where you're bleeding.
That's the real reason wounds inside your mouth heal faster, cleaner, and with less scarring than the same cut on your arm.
Researchers ran the test in a dish. Treated "wound" versus untreated. Sixteen hours later, the saliva-treated one had almost fully closed. The other was still gaping open.
Now it gets bigger. One study found this saliva peptide outperformed a dermal matrix paste used to repair burns. And because histatin can be mass-produced, scientists are racing to build it into implants and dressings for the wounds that refuse to heal, diabetic ulcers, burns, chronic injuries.
The cure for stubborn wounds may have been on the tip of your tongue this whole time.
Source: Science Focus